Art. 114. A farther Account of the Poisonous Effects of the Hemlock Dropwort; or the Oenanthe Aquatica fucco virofo crocante of Lobel. By Dr. Watson.

In the month of June, 1746, Dr. Watfon communicated to the Society, an account of several French Prifoners having been poisoned by this Plant, at Pembroke. This account was published in the Tranfactions, and afterwards in most of the periodical papers of the time. A late inftance, however, has evinced, fays this Gentleman, that thofe publications have not fully answered the end of the writer; the Plant in queftion not being yet fufficiently known and attended to. This inftance is here noticed in the cafe of one Mildane, a Cabinet-maker, of Havant in Hampfhire; who, taking about five spoonfuls of the Juice of this Root, instead of the Water Parfnip, was foon after feized with vomiting and convulfions, in which he immediately died.

Art. 116. A Difcourfe on the Cinnamon, Caffia, or Canella. By Taylor White, Efq;

The intent of this Paper is to fhew, that the Caffia of Malabar and Sumatra might answer all the valuable purposes of the Cinnamon of Ceylon.

Of FOSSILES.

Art. 68. An Account of a Foffile Thigh-bone of a large Animal, dug up at Stonefield near Woodstock. By Mr. Jofhua Platt.

Some Vertebræ of an enormous fize having been found, about three years ago, in the fame place, Mr. Platt, author of this paper, conceives the Thigh-bone now discovered, might belong to the fame animal, which he fuppofes to have been an Hippopotamus or Rhinoceros, depofited there at the time of the Flood.

Art. 92. An Account of the Fofile Bones of an Allegator, found on the Sea-fhore, near Whitby in Yorkshire. By Captain Chapman.

These Bones were prefented, together with the Defcription and a Drawing of them, to the Society. They were found in a Stratum, what is there called Állum-rock, a kind of Black Slate; lying near fixty yards lower than the top of the cliff; which is continually wearing away, by the washing of the Sea, and muft a Century ago have extended much farther than the spot where the Bones were found.

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Art. 108. Is another Defcription of the fame Bones. By Dr.

Morton.

Art. 93. De Rariori quadam Orthoceratitis Specie, in Suecia reperta, tractatus: in Litor is a Nicholao de Himfel, M. D. Riga Livono, ad Gul. Watfon, M. D.

Of INSECTS, FISH, &c.

Art. 77. Obfervations on the Limax non Cochleata Purpuram ferens; the naked Snail producing Purple. By Dr. Andrew Peyflonel.

This Fish is foft, viscous, without fhell, fcales, or bones; being of the nature of the Polypi, without feet, fins, or any thing to fupply their places. Its motion is vermicular; and, like Slugs, it wreathes itself up, when touch'd, 'till it be quite round. It is commonly about four inches long, and two thick; and throws out its purple juice, as the Cuttlefish doth his ink. This juice is of a beautiful deep colour, and dies linen fo as not easily to be got out,

Art. 78. Obfervations on the Worms that form Spunges. By

the fame.

Art. 112. On the Corona Solis Marina Americana: or the American Sea-fun-crown. By the fame.

This infect bears a refemblance to the Flower called Corona Solis, from which, therefore, it takes its name. It is flat and round; and adheres to the rocks; bearing from the center certain rays, like white nerves, on a moist Resh, of a livid violet colour.

Art. 113. An Account of feveral rare Species of Barnacles. By John Ellis, Efq;

Among fourteen Papers relative to PHYSIC and SURGERY, the following are the most interesting.

Art. 59. An Account of the Effects of Electricity in Paralytic Cafes.

The ingenious Mr. Franklin of Philadelphia, relates in this article, the little fuccefs he met with, in his attempts to cure the Palfy by Electrification: the advantages the patients reaped by the operation not being lafting, but always fucceeded by a relapfe. We are hence led to fufpect the greater part of those numerous cures, boafted of in Scotland, Sweden, and many other countries, to have been of the fame tempo

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rary nature. It is, however, admitted, by this candid and ingenious obferver, that fome permanent advantage may posfibly be obtained, when the electric fhocks are accompanied with proper medicine and regimen, under the direction of a fkilful Phyfician.

Art. 66. The Cafe of a Boy troubled with convulfive Fits, cured by the Discharge of Worms. By the Rev. Mr. Oram, Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely.

This is a very extraordinary cafe of a poor boy, in the moft miserable circumftances, who was yet aftonishingly relieved, by fwallowing near half a pint of White Paint; which, vomiting and purging him with great violence, brought away an infinite number of Worms, the cause of his diforder. In Art. 111, Dr. Wall has made fome obfervations on this cafe, and recommends Oil as a powerful Vermifuge. This is the form fuccefsfully prefcribed by the Phyficians of the Worcester Infirmary, K. Ol. Oliv. lb. fs. Sp. vol. aromat. 3ij M. cap. Cochl. iii. mane et H. S,

Art. 69. A Difcourfe of the Usefulness of Inoculation of the Horned Cattle, to prevent the Contagious Distemper among them.

Dr. Layard, the author of this paper, having fome time. ago written an Effay on the Contagion among the Cattle, he appears now extremely follicitous to establish the practice of Inoculating, to prevent its fatality. It was a very juft remark, however, which the learned Prefident made on this fubject, that Before Inoculation could be practifed on the "Horned Cattle, it is neceffary to bring proofs, that this "disease is not fufceptible more than once; and also affur"ances, that a Recovery from the Diftemper, by Inocula "tion, guards the Beaft from a fecond Infection." This our author endeavours to do, and appears to have fucceeded, as to the former part of the obfervation, viz, That Cattle having had the Diftemper in the natural way, are not subject to a fecond infection. As to the latter part of the Remark, the very few trials that have as yet been made, hardly afford examples fufficient to give fuch affurance. Indeed, even the great number of inftances brought to prove, that this Distem per is not fufceptible more than once, ought, perhaps, to be confined to the natural way of receiving the Contagion: because we ourselves are well affured, that of certain Cattle inoculated at Beverwyk in Holland, one of them had before REV, Sep. 1759,

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went through the Distemper in the natural way, and yet received it again by Inoculation.

Art. 81. An Account of an extraordinary Cafe of the Efficacy of the Bark in the Delirium of a Fever. By Dr. Munckley. Art. 75. On the remarkable Effects of Blifters, in leffening the Quickness of the Pulfe in Coughs, attended with Infarction of the Lungs and Fever. By Dr. Whytt.

Both thefe articles are interefting, and well deferve the notice of the Faculty.

Among the ASTRONOMICAL, and METEOROLOGICAL Papers, we find Obfervations on the Comet of 1757, and on two Lunar Eclipfes in the years 1757 and 1758. The first by Dr. Klinkenberg, at the Hague; the fecond by a Correfpondent of Dr. Maty's. Alfo,

Remarks on the different Temperature of the Air, at Edyftone and at Plymouth, by Mr. Smeaton; and an Account of the extraordinary Heat of the Weather, and its Effects at Plymouth, in July and August 1757; when Fahrenheit's Thermometer afcended nearly to 86. By Dr. Huxham.

In Article 102, we have alfo an account of the extraor dinary Heat of the Weather in Georgia; in a Letter from Governor Ellis, part of which we have here extracted.

Georgia, 17 July, 1758.

Tis now about three o'clock; the fun bears nearly S. W. and I am writing in a piazza, open at each end, on the north-eaft fide of my houfe, perfectly in the fhade; a small breeze at S. E. blows freely thro' it; no buildings are nearer, to reflect the heat, than fixty yards; yet in a thermoter hanging by me, made by Mr. Bird, and compared by the late Mr. George Graham, with an approved one of ⚫ his own, the Mercury ftands at 102. Twice it has risen this fummer to the fame height; viz. on the 28th of June, and the 11th of July. Several times it has been at 100, and for many days fucceffively at 98; and did not in the nights fink below 89. I think it highly probable, that the inhabitants of this town breathe a hotter air than any other people on the face of the earth. The greatest Heat we had daft year was but 92, and that but once; from 84 to 90 were the ufual variations; but this is reckoned an • extraordinary hot fummer. The weather-wife of this country fay it forebodes a Hurricane; for it has always been • remarked, that these tempefts have been preceded by conti

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nual and uncommon Heats. I must acquaint you, however, that the Heats we are subject to here, are more intense than in any other parts of the province, the town of Savannah being fituated upon a fandy eminence, and sheltered all round with high woods. But it is very fufficient, that the people actually breathe fo hot an air as I defcribe; and no lefs remarkable, that this very fpot, from its height and dryness, is reckoned equally healthy with any other in the province.

I have frequently walked an hundred yards under an umbrella; with a thermometer fufpended from it, by a thread, to the height of my noftrils, when the mercury has rofe to 105; which is prodigious. At the fame time I have confined this inftrument close to the hotteft part of my body, ' and have been aftonished to obferve, that it has fubfided fe⚫veral degrees. Indeed, I never could raise the mercury above 97 with the heat of my body.

You know, dear Sir, that I have traversed a great part of this globe, not without giving fome attention to the peculiarities of each climate; and I can fairly pronounce, that I never felt fuch Heats any-where as in Georgia. I know experiments on this fubject are extremely liable to error; but I prefume I cannot now be mistaken, either in the goodness of the inftrument, or in the fairness of the trials, which I have repeatedly made with it. This fame ⚫ thermometer I have had thrice in the equatorial parts of • Africa; as often at Jamaica, and the Weft-India islands; ⚫ and, upon examination of my journals, I do not find, that the quickfilver ever rofe in thofe parts above the 87th degree, and to that but feldom: its general ftation was between the 79th and 86th degree; and yet I think I have felt thofe degrees, with a moist air, more difagreeable than what I now feel.

In my relation of the late expedition to the North-west, if I recollect right, I have obferved, that all the changes and variety of weather, that happen in the Temperate Zone throughout the year, may be experienced at the Hudfon's Bay fettlements in twenty-four hours. But I may now extend this obfervation; for in my cellar the thermometer stands at 81, in the next story at 102, and in the upper one at 105; and yet thefe Heats, violent as they are, ⚫ would be tolerable, but for the fudden changes that fucceed them. On the 10th of December laft the mercury was at 86; on the 11th it was fo low as 38 of the fame ⚫ inftrument.

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